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The New School for Social Research

The New School for Social Research is a graduate institution in New York City. We generate progressive scholarship in the social sciences and philosophy. Our 75+ full-time faculty members in nine departments offer masters and doctoral degrees to 800 graduate students.

Our faculty of more than 75 full-time scholars creates active and long-lasting partnerships with students. These public intellectual are leaders in their fields of study, shaping public debate, academic research, and pushing the boundaries of social sciences and philosophy around the world.

Grounded in theoretical criticism, interdisciplinary exploration, and dissection of the world today, graduate students and faculty at NSSR produce scholarship that challenges the status quo, shapes the present, and leads the future of public debate. Explore their research and work.

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Graduate students at The New School for Social Research develop the skills to boldly question conventional thinking and break down the boundaries of social thought. See stories of our intrepid alumni, shaping the intellectual future of their fields.

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Janet Roitman

Professor of Anthropology

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Janet Roitman is a Professor of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research. She received her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. Before coming to the New School, she served as an instructor at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques de Paris (Sciences-po). She was likewise a research fellow with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and a member of the Institut Marcel-Mauss (CNRS-EHESS) in Paris.

Professor Roitman has conducted extensive research in Central Africa, focusing specifically on the borders of Cameroon, Nigeria, the Central African Republic and Chad. Her book, Fiscal Disobedience: An Anthropology of Economic Regulation in Central Africa (Princeton University Press, 2005), is an analysis of the unregulated commerce that transpires on those borders. This research inquires into emergent forms of economic regulation in the region of the Chad Basin and considers consequential transformations in the nature of fiscal relations and citizenship. More generally, her research covers topics of political economy, the anthropology of value, economization, and emergent forms of the political.

Her most recent book, entitled Anti-Crisis (Duke University Press) inquires into the status of the concept of crisis in the social sciences, a project she developed with the support of the Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University, where she was a scholar-in-residence from 2010-11.

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